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Business Day column: Zuma: a terrorist to some, beyond reproach according to others
Is President Jacob Zuma a terrorist? Maybe, according to legal expert Ivan Herselman.
13 April 2017
Is President Jacob Zuma a terrorist? Maybe, according to legal expert Ivan Herselman.
Spats about facts can be confusing. Communications Minister Siyabonga Cwele, for instance, accused me of being “wrong” about the formulation of incredibly important telecommunications policy.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan addresses a briefing ahead of his budget speech.
Beware — if the hateful hate speech bill is enacted, telling someone that they induce the episodic levator ani syndrome variant of proctalgia funaxal sacrococcygeal distress in your pubococcygeus could have you jailed for a whole three years.
If you hang us, hang us for crimes we committed, is my response to Prof Steven Friedman’s diatribe against Herman Mashaba and the Free Market Foundation (FMF). It is virtually all nonsense.
Since this is my last 2016 column, I was asked by the government to wish readers a joyless festive season and unhappy new year.
According to the auditor-general’s latest report, there was R27bn in “irregular” spending last year.
IT MIGHT have been the most expensive day in South African high court history.
Farcical “workshops”, “consultations”, “seminars” and “indabas” parade as compliance with the constitutional requirement that laws and policies must be preceded and influenced by public participation.
Once upon a time, people knew what human rights were. It was beautifully straightforward.